NFC East News and Rumors

Washington Redskins head coach Mike Shanahan thought he was leaving Pittsburgh with far less than just the 27-12 loss the Redskins’ suffered at the hands of the Steelers in Week 8. According to Alan Robinson of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Shanahan fi

Pats pick up Mitch Petrus

In what could be a strong to quite strong hint that guard Logan Mankins will miss some time with an ankle injury suffered on Sunday against the Bills, the Patriots have signed free-agent guard Mitch Petrus. The team announced the move on Tuesday. Petrus…

Before the season started, there was a lot of discussion about whether or not Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant would ever fulfill the potential he showed during his first two years. Doubters cited his off-field issues and his in-game lapses in concentra…

The mathematically-inclined folks at NumberFire.com have calculated the odds of each NFL team reaching the playoffs, and they have concluded that once again the New York Giants will win the NFC East with a 9-7 record and be the only team from the divisi…

Two days after not-commenting-while-commenting on the reported interest of outgoing Browns president Mike Holmgren in the not-currently-vacant head coaching job in Dallas, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has commented on his commitment to the guy who currentl…

Tiki Barber's Life Just Gets Sadder Every Day

It's been six years since Tiki Barber retired from football, which means we've spent six years watching him desperately try and fail at becoming some kind of relevant media personality. Having washed out of the television business, Tiki is on to much sa…

PFT Live: Eagles talk with Tim McManus, Wendy’s Rapid Reaction

It seems like there’s been some kind of crisis every week of this season for the Eagles and this week is certainly no exception. A concussion may be the thing that ends Michael Vick’s tenure as the team’s starting quarterback and Tim McManus of 97.5

Giants rookie David Wilson will ride the pine until he grows up

Three running backs were chosen in the first round of this year’s NFL draft, and two of them are carrying the load as rookies: Tampa Bay’s Doug Martin has 173 carries for 862 yards and Cleveland’s Trent Richardson has 152 carries for 575 yards. And

The Cowboys haven’t proven themselves to be consistent enough to overlook anyone, but owner Jerry Jones sounded like a man looking down the schedule past the Browns, in respect to the condition of running back DeMarco Murray. Jones said they’d continu

The Giants, first-round picks and patience

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers jumped ahead of the New York Giants in the draft to take running back Doug Martin, who ran for 251 yards two weeks ago against the Oakland Raiders. The Giants then picked running back David Wilson, who has rushed for 89 yards al…

Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw has had a busy start to his bye week, going through a battery of medical tests to try to figure out the nature of his problems. And according to Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPNNewYork.com, that included an X-ray of his neck. Br…

Every week, at the stroke of noon ET on Tuesday, we do a little thing we like to call the NFC East chat. How it works is you click on these little blue letters right here, any time between noon and 1 p.m. ET, and your web browser carries you off into ou…

Cowboys coach Jason Garrett says he’s happy to take the bad with the good with his quarterback, Tony Romo. After the Cowboys beat the Eagles on Sunday, Garrett said that he views Romo as a great quarterback because he can improvise and do things when th

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Kerry J. Byrne: Inside the numbers: Week 11

Don Banks: As proven in Week 10, concussion recognition still an inexact s…

Nov 13

Week 10 in the NFL saw the vexing issue of concussions raise its ugly (and groggy) head again, with three starting quarterbacks in the NFC going down like so many bowling pins. Michael Vick on the East Coast, Alex Smith on the West Coast and Jay Cutler …